PMID- 22742689
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131226
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1943-7676 (Electronic)
IS  - 0272-9490 (Linking)
VI  - 66
IP  - 4
DP  - 2012 Jul-Aug
TI  - Validating the use of the evaluation tool of children's handwriting-manuscript to 
      identify handwriting difficulties and detect change in school-age children.
PG  - 414-21
LID - 10.5014/ajot.2012.003558 [doi]
AB  - In this study we sought to validate the discriminant ability of the Evaluation 
      Tool of Children's Handwriting-Manuscript in identifying children in Grades 2-3 
      with handwriting difficulties and to determine the percentage of change in 
      handwriting scores that is consistently detected by occupational therapists. 
      Thirty-four therapists judged and compared 35 pairs of handwriting samples. 
      Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were performed to determine (1) 
      the optimal cutoff values for word and letter legibility scores that identify 
      children with handwriting difficulties who should be seen in rehabilitation and 
      (2) the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in handwriting scores. 
      Cutoff scores of 75.0% for total word legibility and 76.0% for total letter 
      legibility were found to provide excellent levels of accuracy. A difference of 
      10.0%-12.5% for total word legibility and 6.0%-7.0% for total letter legibility 
      were found as the MCID. Study findings enable therapists to quantitatively 
      support clinical judgment when evaluating handwriting.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
FAU - Brossard-Racine, Marie
AU  - Brossard-Racine M
AD  - School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
FAU - Mazer, Barbara
AU  - Mazer B
FAU - Julien, Marilyse
AU  - Julien M
FAU - Majnemer, Annette
AU  - Majnemer A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Validation Study
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Occup Ther
JT  - The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the 
      American Occupational Therapy Association
JID - 7705978
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - Discriminant Analysis
MH  - Female
MH  - *Handwriting
MH  - *Health Personnel
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Occupational Therapy
MH  - Students
EDAT- 2012/06/30 06:00
MHDA- 2013/12/27 06:00
CRDT- 2012/06/30 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/12/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.5014/ajot.2012.003558 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Occup Ther. 2012 Jul-Aug;66(4):414-21. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2012.003558.